Program or Be Programmed: Education, Virtual Worlds and Our Lives Online
Collaboration, Education in Virtual Worlds, Second Life | (11)
It may seem like a stretch to say that 5,000 educators and trainers coming together in a virtual world represents the leading edge of how we can come to an accommodation with technology's power over our lives, but that's what struck me about the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) conference.
Karl Kapp wrote a follow-up piece in which he claimed he had seen the "future of conferences" and while that may be true to some degree I was instead reminded of what Tom Boellstorff said during my interview of him on Saturday: that as we CREATE we both ...